2020 Elections - Trump FIRED
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youthathletics
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Love her back and forth at the 14:45 mark, calling out NBC and telling her their propaganda is destructive. So far, I like her.
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runrussellrun
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who is the nbc shrill/ twit trying to force the false Russian narrative .....Very impressed by Gabbard.youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:09 pm Love her back and forth at the 14:45 mark, calling out NBC and telling her their propaganda is destructive. So far, I like her.
But, but....Obama had 20 years more life experience when he attacked the LGBT community when he ran for President. Whataboutism is hated because it proves the hypocrisy. Of course, only Tulsi was hateful, attacking, not barack
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youthathletics
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Mika Brzezinski is hot, in a Seka kinda way. 
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
~Livy
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -Soren Kierkegaard
~Livy
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:09 pm Love her back and forth at the 14:45 mark, calling out NBC and telling her their propaganda is destructive. So far, I like her.
She is a Bernie socialist.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/429 ... -socialism No matter how much you hate Trump he knows how to play the game of politics. The old strategy of playing both ends against the middle could have the Democrats tearing themselves apart if they don't get their chit together. The FLP's and the Socialists seem to be headed at each others throats.
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The Democrats are about to ramp up their destructive, internecine battle.Trump/Miller must be ecstatic.
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Republican debates were filled with an endless array of hate, the likes of which we never saw before. Yet, it did not become a problem for them in the election. Will be interesting to see how the Dem internecine wars will result.
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Former astronaut Mark Kelly launches Arizona Senate run
A formidable opponent for TrumpBot Martha McSally...
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A formidable opponent for TrumpBot Martha McSally...
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Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million anti-Trump moonshot
"Bloomberg has not yet announced whether he will run in the Democratic primary. If he runs, he will use that half-billion-dollar stake — roughly $175 million more than the Trump campaign spent over the course of the entire 2016 election cycle — to fuel his campaign through the 2020 primary season, with the expectation that the sum represents a floor, not a ceiling, on his potential spending.
If Bloomberg declines to seek the presidency, his intention is to run an unprecedented data-heavy campaign designed to operate as a shadow political party for the eventual Democratic nominee."
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"Bloomberg has not yet announced whether he will run in the Democratic primary. If he runs, he will use that half-billion-dollar stake — roughly $175 million more than the Trump campaign spent over the course of the entire 2016 election cycle — to fuel his campaign through the 2020 primary season, with the expectation that the sum represents a floor, not a ceiling, on his potential spending.
If Bloomberg declines to seek the presidency, his intention is to run an unprecedented data-heavy campaign designed to operate as a shadow political party for the eventual Democratic nominee."
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"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog." - Calvin, to Hobbes
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runrussellrun
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Why no one gives two seconds of thought to someone spending $500 million ....for a job that pays $400Kdislaxxic wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:19 am Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million anti-Trump moonshot
"Bloomberg has not yet announced whether he will run in the Democratic primary. If he runs, he will use that half-billion-dollar stake — roughly $175 million more than the Trump campaign spent over the course of the entire 2016 election cycle — to fuel his campaign through the 2020 primary season, with the expectation that the sum represents a floor, not a ceiling, on his potential spending.
If Bloomberg declines to seek the presidency, his intention is to run an unprecedented data-heavy campaign designed to operate as a shadow political party for the eventual Democratic nominee."
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Do you know how far $500 million would go to help improve Baltimore? Mikey sure doesn't give a crap about them in charm city.
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Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day, and Frank Bruni's Newsletter:
"For years now I’ve been hearing stories about the imperious and cruel ways in which Senator Amy Klobuchar, who just announced a presidential bid, treats staff members, so I know that recent, widely discussed reports about this in HuffPost and BuzzFeed News aren’t just dirt planted and promoted by her rivals. Nor are they the sorts of urban legends that a national candidacy inevitably dredges up. Klobuchar has a reputation because, by many accounts, she has a problem. And it’s a problem relevant to her leadership skills.
But I’ve also been hearing about it too frequently, which is to say that I can’t recall a similar batch of stories, told with similar zest, about any of the men in the Senate. Perhaps her temper is more volatile than each and every one of her peers’ and perhaps her wrath more terrifying. But I seriously doubt that. I think it’s just not as juicy to gossip about a male tyrant. And a demanding woman, to this day, gets a different rap than a demanding man does. He’s high-handed, which isn’t a compliment but also isn’t much of a slur. She’s a harridan.
By The Times’s regularly updated count, six of the 11 official candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination so far are women. Nothing remotely like this has happened before. And while that reflects indisputable progress, it also creates a situation in which we may see more clearly than ever how far we still have to go.
It’s not Hillary Clinton all alone trying to slough off stereotypes and beat back sexism. It’s Klobuchar tackling charges of meanness and instability, Elizabeth Warren trying not to be seen as a “schoolmarm” (a word that female as well as male acquaintances of mine have attached to her), all of them dealing with the question of “likeability,” as my colleague Maggie Astor observed in a big story in The Times this week. That particular question dogs women in a way that it doesn’t dog men. Donald Trump is spectacularly unlikable, and seems to revel in that. Why shouldn’t he? He was rewarded for it. It was seen as proof of his independence and authenticity, as I mention in my midweek column, which is in part about what Democratic candidates could learn from that.
So that we give these candidates a fair shake and end up nominating the right one, we need to stay conscious of, and not fall prey to, our sexism. But we also need to be nuanced — something we’re uniquely terrible at these days — and not see sexism in places where it doesn’t clearly exist, because that encourages some people to dismiss the whole discussion as overblown and tune it out.
A case in point: some recent coverage of Kirsten Gillibrand, who is also running for president. Eating fried chicken in South Carolina, she checked with the people around her before deciding whether to use utensils or her fingers. This was mocked on Twitter; that mockery was in turn deemed “gendered.” I disagree. The context for it was her record, over time, of extraordinary shape-shifting to meet her audience’s desires, a quality that plenty of male presidential candidates, including John Kerry and Mitt Romney, were disparaged for. She wasn’t being dinged for intense ambition, the way women too often are.
As for the stories that Klobuchar made aides pick her dirty clothes off her bedroom floor, flew into rages about how terrible their work was and more, I’m sure that many are true, that many are exaggerated and that there are comparable tales about male senators. We just don’t hear about the men. I covered Congress for The Times in 1998 and 1999, and the only senators spoken of constantly and operatically as awful bosses were women. That strikes me as curious. And very revealing."
"For years now I’ve been hearing stories about the imperious and cruel ways in which Senator Amy Klobuchar, who just announced a presidential bid, treats staff members, so I know that recent, widely discussed reports about this in HuffPost and BuzzFeed News aren’t just dirt planted and promoted by her rivals. Nor are they the sorts of urban legends that a national candidacy inevitably dredges up. Klobuchar has a reputation because, by many accounts, she has a problem. And it’s a problem relevant to her leadership skills.
But I’ve also been hearing about it too frequently, which is to say that I can’t recall a similar batch of stories, told with similar zest, about any of the men in the Senate. Perhaps her temper is more volatile than each and every one of her peers’ and perhaps her wrath more terrifying. But I seriously doubt that. I think it’s just not as juicy to gossip about a male tyrant. And a demanding woman, to this day, gets a different rap than a demanding man does. He’s high-handed, which isn’t a compliment but also isn’t much of a slur. She’s a harridan.
By The Times’s regularly updated count, six of the 11 official candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination so far are women. Nothing remotely like this has happened before. And while that reflects indisputable progress, it also creates a situation in which we may see more clearly than ever how far we still have to go.
It’s not Hillary Clinton all alone trying to slough off stereotypes and beat back sexism. It’s Klobuchar tackling charges of meanness and instability, Elizabeth Warren trying not to be seen as a “schoolmarm” (a word that female as well as male acquaintances of mine have attached to her), all of them dealing with the question of “likeability,” as my colleague Maggie Astor observed in a big story in The Times this week. That particular question dogs women in a way that it doesn’t dog men. Donald Trump is spectacularly unlikable, and seems to revel in that. Why shouldn’t he? He was rewarded for it. It was seen as proof of his independence and authenticity, as I mention in my midweek column, which is in part about what Democratic candidates could learn from that.
So that we give these candidates a fair shake and end up nominating the right one, we need to stay conscious of, and not fall prey to, our sexism. But we also need to be nuanced — something we’re uniquely terrible at these days — and not see sexism in places where it doesn’t clearly exist, because that encourages some people to dismiss the whole discussion as overblown and tune it out.
A case in point: some recent coverage of Kirsten Gillibrand, who is also running for president. Eating fried chicken in South Carolina, she checked with the people around her before deciding whether to use utensils or her fingers. This was mocked on Twitter; that mockery was in turn deemed “gendered.” I disagree. The context for it was her record, over time, of extraordinary shape-shifting to meet her audience’s desires, a quality that plenty of male presidential candidates, including John Kerry and Mitt Romney, were disparaged for. She wasn’t being dinged for intense ambition, the way women too often are.
As for the stories that Klobuchar made aides pick her dirty clothes off her bedroom floor, flew into rages about how terrible their work was and more, I’m sure that many are true, that many are exaggerated and that there are comparable tales about male senators. We just don’t hear about the men. I covered Congress for The Times in 1998 and 1999, and the only senators spoken of constantly and operatically as awful bosses were women. That strikes me as curious. And very revealing."
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That is a funny comment, my wife (who is both an underling and a boss) would rather work for men than women. Her experience is that most women, not all for she has also had some very good women bosses, but most are very passive-aggressive in their approach to managing people.
Of course there are bad men bosses too, find it hard to believe the Senate (and House) don't have a ton of each sex.
And what are her aides doing in her bedroom anyway?
Of course there are bad men bosses too, find it hard to believe the Senate (and House) don't have a ton of each sex.
And what are her aides doing in her bedroom anyway?
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runrussellrun
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Hillary was running all alone? Funny, in most states, there was another woman. A graduate of Harvard Medical school. Quack indeed
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LOL. You are a beta wimp.
Farfromgeneva is a sissy soy boy
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The Democratic Primary Is About to Get a Center Lane
"The early days of 2019—which is to say, the early days of the 2020 campaign—have been dominated by the Democratic Party’s left wing. Early big-name entrants Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand were all quick to plant their flags squarely on progressive soil. Most tellingly, all four support Bernie Sanders–style Medicare for all and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, two issues that have emerged as the biggest intraparty litmus tests for the primary season.
Don’t expect that early consensus to last, however, as other top-tier candidates begin to officially enter the fray, as was the case last weekend with Amy Klobuchar’s formal campaign launch. The Minnesota senator is banking on her relatively moderate politics and Midwestern roots to help her stand out in a field that is currently clustered on the progressive end of the spectrum. Sherrod Brown, who spent the weekend in New Hampshire testing out his potential campaign message, is plotting a similar path to the nomination. Joe Biden has long had the same kind of route in mind should he decide to run. Other could-be candidates, from Michael Bloomberg to Beto O’Rourke, are likely to veer toward the center in interesting ways as well."
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"The early days of 2019—which is to say, the early days of the 2020 campaign—have been dominated by the Democratic Party’s left wing. Early big-name entrants Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand were all quick to plant their flags squarely on progressive soil. Most tellingly, all four support Bernie Sanders–style Medicare for all and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, two issues that have emerged as the biggest intraparty litmus tests for the primary season.
Don’t expect that early consensus to last, however, as other top-tier candidates begin to officially enter the fray, as was the case last weekend with Amy Klobuchar’s formal campaign launch. The Minnesota senator is banking on her relatively moderate politics and Midwestern roots to help her stand out in a field that is currently clustered on the progressive end of the spectrum. Sherrod Brown, who spent the weekend in New Hampshire testing out his potential campaign message, is plotting a similar path to the nomination. Joe Biden has long had the same kind of route in mind should he decide to run. Other could-be candidates, from Michael Bloomberg to Beto O’Rourke, are likely to veer toward the center in interesting ways as well."
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Great news—independent Bernie is running for President again. Trump’s team high-fives.
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cradleandshoot
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-e ... on-n972906 I just had a great capitalist brainstorming idea. Why not set up a tent at the Bernie rally with very relevant merchandise. Che Guevara tee shirts, rolling papers and bongs, DJT dart boards, clean heroin needles, condoms, vomit bags and approved baseball bats for any Antifa folks that show up with a sudden desire to bash in some skulls of MAGA hat wearing people they may run across in their travels... Yeah there is money to be made there. 
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